UO 2d Vs KR Speed

Its a bit annoying when you PvP as a mage, and don't want to switch to KR because
1: you cant use 'target' on mousewheel
2: KR makes me crash pretty often.

So its sometimes hard to survive with these ultra fast dexxers chasing you, and even harder to kill them as they just jump off your screen when you cast a spell
Its bad enough with the speeding people around allready, not taken care of!

That simply isn't true, as was stated in a previous post in this thread KR is far quicker esepcially when it comes to changing directions as long as your computer can handle the graphics requirements comfortably. You will be able to outrun anyone using a non enhanced 2d client with the KR client and keep pace with anyone using an enhanced 2d client. For a dexer KR is almost viable, aside from the horrible targetting issues and those crashes. Again, I'm not sure why the speedhacking issues are still a concern seeing as the devs have released a client capable of the same speeds

First everyone complains about KR being slow, clunky, and unuseable. That it can't be used in PVP. Hard to believe that anyone could now complain about it's speed.

Hard to imagin it being so fast that it can actually catch a speed hacker. Maybe everyone being as fast as a hacker is a way to get rid of them. Who knows that may be the inent.
KR also has the one click looting too. That also should help get rid of hacking.

I think the best way to tell it's speed is to use your own connection in 2D and then KR at the same location same char.
I always use the white bridge outside of Luna. Measuring it against another person could be a diff in connection.

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It is fast enough to get me labeled "Speedhacker" so it's noticeable and that's the only reason I use it. It was that or using a Speedhack JUST TO BE ABLE TO COMPETE.. Imagine that, 80% of the people run one. Speaking of which, the new Speedhack out there(relatively new) does beat it or at least compete with it just fine. Tested. And no it doesn't "fry your CPU".

You do not need UOA, Hotbars for the win.

It crashes AT LEAST once every 40-60 minutes. It can even crash on Character Selection or upon opening your Guild List.

Half the things are not usable, like Dye Tubs, Ballot Boxes, Chessboards, Friends/Co-Owners/Access Lists. You cannot safely trade because if you put many items on the Trade Gump the names start dissappearing, the "Accept" button doesn't show.. Oh well, thankfully they are not too important. rolleyes: Oh and you cannot get the Health Bars of people out without a LOT of practice. Nor can you tell who's red, grey, blue, orange or green unless you constantly hit AllNames. Yay. Lots more which I have reported. Best thing? When a Ninja casts something from Stealth, a smoke cloud appears giving off their location. Ruin Ninjitsu more?
Oh and how did I forget. If your target runs off screen, the targetting circle around them dissappears. Your char will still swing at them but it is VERY confusing.
OH OH RIGHT, AND YOU CANNOT SEE THE SIGIL PEDESTALS AT LEAST IN THE SHADOWLORDS BASE

And... Even with the latest artwork and animation patch... It looks flat, dull and in many occassions simply WRONG. Especially in the animations department.

*EDIT* Did I say my char has a black face and white body in KR? I must have. Oh and GMs don't like it either so far.

i am a KR only player (with very few exceptions due to KR issues like the Elven heritage quest finishing and such) and i am running around a lot with vet-players using the 2d client. KR seems to be slightly faster, IMHO not that much to justify that people would call KR players "speedhackers", but running a race across a couple of screens will see the KR player in front, like a few steps, but not significant. the difference may well be caused by fast vs. slow con though.
the occasional crashes or annoying things like being able o run into the open sea in Magincia, standing in the middle of water and watching the wooden planks of the harbour setup building up in slomo until these finally reach the position where you are standing (same for the black rubble remains) more than compensate the possible speed advantage.
but at the end of the day, i like the KR client as a total and will continue using it.

Stratics Veteran

You know what I've come to realize? If they implemented the interface and eliminated speed hacking or ALLOWED it... And then somehow polished the graphics to look like Saphireena's art, allowing for higher resolutions as well...

I'd play THAT 2D. No doubt.
So KR is all the above(newest Speedhack works on KR now apparently) MINUS the great artwork displayed in that very long thread.

It would have been cheaper by far to hire her to work on art and animations than creating KR.

When I'm saying implementing the interface, it could be as crude and primitive as UOAssist. Not necessarily funky resizable Hotbars.

In short: Hire Saph, the guy who wrote the latest speeder, the people behind UOAM and UOA and put them in a room for a month.
I bet you 1k Euro by the end of that month you'd have a kick-ass Ultima game, even with the WoWish direction EA/Mythic push it. No KR/2D/SA client debates, no nothing.

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